Pianist and Harpsichordist -- Chopin 200th birthday commemorative recitals in Boston and Fall River in the
spring, upcoming programs of Pachelbel's domestic music and the astonishing keyboard music of Baroque Valencia.

"The Muenchkin"! Copy of the Anonymous c. 1590 clavichord in the Deutsches Museum Munich. Completed 2006! Tuned in quarter-comma
meantone with split d-shap/ e-flat in all octaves.

Muenchkin at home

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the Fall River Fipple Fluters

at the Fall River Public Library

The Delight Consort, founded in 1992 to commemorate the quincentenary of Columbus' 'Discovery' of America with some real
period music and intelligent commentary, sings and plays music of the 14th through tthe 18th centuries on recorders,
cornetts, sackbutt, cello, viola, harpsichord, organ and harp. In 2003 it performed music of Thomas D'Urfey in honor of the
200th birthday of Fall River, MA, founded by Durfees.

cornett and sackbutt

The clavichord is the most expressive keyboard instrument ever created. It is the premier instrument for expressing your innermost
feelings, for yourself. Pascal, in his Pensees, suggests that 'All the troubles of the world come from being unable to sit
alone in a quiet room'; Pascal should have owned a clavichord. It is also the instrument that speaks at the meditative volume
level of quiet conversation, among people who know each other well and care about each others' feelings and opinions.

I especially like to play fretted clavichords; they are the instrument that was the premier at-home instrument for four centuries
or so in the Western World. The unfretted clavichord of the 18th century is lovely, there is none lovelier for Mozart or CPE
Bach or the wonderful composers of the Bohemian 18th century; but it was a rather short-lived instrument, of importance for
perhaps 60 years, mainly in north-central Europe. It is softer than the older instrument and perhaps almost created as a protest
as the world got noisier and less connected.

The Delight Consort
20th Anniversary Concert
Music from the Age of Columbus
Judith Conrad, Director, Harpsichord, Sackbutt, Recorder
Paul Ukleja, Cornett, Recorder, Tinwhistle
Otto Guzman, Cello, Cornett, Recorder, Trombone
Frank Fitzpatrick, Recorder, Sackbutt
Sunday, October 14, 2012 at 3:00 PM
St. Luke's Episcopal Church
315 Warren Street Fall River MA
Admission free, donations will be taken to benefit the Crossroads Springs Institute , a school for AIDS orphans in Kenya
The Delight Consort was founded 20 years ago to give concerts celebrating the 500th anniversary of Columbus' First Voyage
of Discovery. Twenty years later we are revisiting this rich lode of music, with another concert for Columbus.
Judith Conrad is music director at the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Kingston, RI, where she gives a series of early
music concerts includiong an annual Messiah sing in early January and a small-scale version of the Bach Mattaeus Passion on
Good Friday. A graduate of Harvard University, she studied piano with Theodore Lettvin in Boston, and also studied with Freeman
Koberstein at Oberlin Conservatory.
Program:
Lamento di Tristano/La Rotta anonymous Italian 14th century
The Lamento depicts the lament of Tristan, from popular medieval legend about Tristan et Iseult. It is followed by La Rotta
- medieval round dance, which is, basically an inverted and motivated Lamento.
Juan Vásquez (or Vázquez, c. 1500, Badajoz - c. 1560, Seville)
Canticum Zachariae; De Los Alamos Vengo, Madre; En la Fuente del Rosel
¿Quando Quando?; Salga la luna
Keyboard – Passa-e-mezzo i Saltarello, Ballo ditto il Picchi, Paduana ditta la Ongara Giovanni Picchi (c. 1600)
Music from the Cancionero de Palacio
Ayque non hay; De la Dulce mi-enemiga; Virgen Benedita sin Par; Din di rin din
Passame per dios barquero; In te Domino Speravi Josquin
compiled at court from the mid-1470s until the beginning of the 16th century, approximately coinciding with the reign of the
Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella.
Intermission
Handel Water Music 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11
17 July 1717 for King George I who requested a concert on the River Thames. The concert was performed by 50 musicians playing
on a barge.
Largo from Xerxes Handel
Keyboard – Enamorando a la Luna J. A. Barradas-Romero (1992)
Salve Regina Cristóbal de Morales (c. 1500 – between September 4 and October 7, 1553)
The Spanish theorist Juan Bermudo declared him “the light of Spain in music”, while in 1559, a Mexican choir –
Spanish polyphony in particular was quick to reach the New World – sang his music at a service commemorating the death
of Charles V the previous year.
Closing
1492/tarentella
The Peaceful Western Wind Thomas Campion
for further information call 508-674-6128 or email judithconrad@mindspring.com